Digital BW, The Print

Hello Ernie,

I used the PiezographyBW plugin (same as R9 by Sundance)intially when 
trying to learn BW printing and found all the lower midtones to be 
blocked up and muddy. Then I upgraded to the BWIcc profiles and used 
MIS FSN inks and got very good tones all the way from black to white.

Then MIS said they were going to discontinue FSN in favor of the new 
UT inks by Paul Roark, who is on this newgroup a lot. I bought the 
UT2 inks and have been very well pleased with them. I use both the 
curves by Paul and am trying out QTR by Roy Harrington to see the 
difference in ink consumption and tones. So far the QTR uses less ink 
that the Epson driver with sliders set to zero, but Prefer the warmer 
tones of the sliders. I'm still learning QTR's finer points at this 
time.

Your friend in Photography,

Johnny



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, ernie nitka 
<enitka1@c...> wrote:
> 
> Howdy - I'm new to the group and wanted to know if anyone is using 
this 
> combo.  I am and recently have been underwhelmed by it.  My 
workflow is to 
> get the TIF looking the way I want it in Photoshop CS and then 
export it to 
> the R9 Driver.  I've tried playing with the gamma but my reading of 
the 
> manual is that this only effects the mid-tones.  I've recently been 
able to 
> get better looking prints from my Epson 960 using soft proofing and 
the OEM 
> inks.  I'm thinking of going with the MIS inks and curves.
> 
> Any thoughts.
> 
> Ernie Nitka